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Harassment of four Class XII students
Dept acts against 2 teachers
Chandigarh, August 6
Acting on a report of the sexual harassment committee of Government Senior Secondary School, Sector 38 (West), the Education Department finally swung into action and repatriated one of the accused teachers in a case of harassment of four Class XII students to his parent cadre state and suspended another accused teacher.

Crime cases in city
Despite CCTV footage, UT police continue to grope in the dark
Chandigarh, August 6
Facing flak from all corners after the daylight robbery incident at a jewellery store in Sector 22 two days ago, the UT police today claimed the crime was “well under control”.

CCTV footage shows a robber (left) aiming a gun at a salesman at KRJ Karan Jewellers in Sector 22; and a thief entering a house in Sector 44, Chandigarh.

Crime under control: Police
Chandigarh, August 6
In a face-saving exercise after the Sector 22 robbery case, the UT police today released figures to claim that crime was well under control and “all is well”.

P’kula cops fail to build on CCTV leads

Panchkula, August 6 Even though CCTV cameras captured grabs of persons involved in several cases of robbery here, the police have failed to make any breakthrough in these cases.
CCTV grabs of a theft incident at a BJP leader’s house; and (right) the white Etios gang at a toll plaza. Tribune photos

Youth held for minor sister’s rape
Mohali, August 6
A 22-year-old youth was arrested by the Mohali police for allegedly raping his 15-year-old sister at Nayagaon. The accused works as a tempo driver.

Man gets life term for wife’s murder
Mohali, August 6
A local court today pronounced the life term to a person for murdering his wife.

accident case
Taking HC orders lightly costs cop dear, told to pay Rs 50,000
Mohali, August 6
Taking the Punjab and Haryana High Court’s directions “lightly” has cost an Inspector-rank officer of the Mohali police dear.

800 BSNL phones lose ring, courtesy cable theft
Chandigarh, August 6
Nearly 800 households in Sector 19 have been facing inconvenience due to disruption of their BSNL telephone lines since yesterday.

COMMUNITY

Poster-making competition on World Organ Donation Day
Against norms, digital image adjudged best
Chandigarh, August 6
Amid over 1,000 posters sent by participants from across the country, a digital image was adjudged the best by the jury at the PGI during the World Organ Donation function here, today, irking many other participants who had given hand-made posters.

Haryana Governor Kaptan Singh Solanki with winners of the poster-making competition at the PGI in Chandigarh on Wednesday. Tribune photo: Parvesh Chauhan

50 visitors pledge organs at PGI
Chandigarh, August 6
Nearly 50 visitors pledged their organs after attending a public forum at the PGI on World Organ Donation Day. This added to over 700 individuals who have pledged to donate their organs at the institute, in the past four years.

City’s first four-laned underpass to come up in Sec 17
Chandigarh, August 6
The city’s first underpass that will be built at the ISBT-17 roundabout will be 16-metre wide with four lanes. The underpass that is expected to be built at a cost of Rs 25 crore will also have a dedicated passage for pedestrians. The underpass will accommodate traffic moving from the Press light point towards the Aroma light point. Congress Councillor Pardeep Chhabra said the depth of the underpass would be about seven metre and provisions would be made for the stormwater drainage (SWD) system.

Only 7.4% city consumers declare actual power load
Chandigarh, August 6
The data available with the UT Electricity Department depicts that city residents do not declare the actual power load. There are 2.01 lakh power consumers in the city but till date only 7.4 per cent (15,000 consumers) have approached the Electricity Department to declare their actual electricity load.

Mohali civic body gets tough with violators
Mohali, August 6
Getting tough with persons who have been blatantly violating laws, the Municipal Corporation has slapped notices on 40 residents for dumping malba at unauthorised places and issued warnings to 220 shopkeepers for encroaching upon verandahs in the markets.

Emotions on display: Artistes enact a scene from a play, “Saudagar”, at Panjab Kala Bhawan in Sector 16, Chandigarh, on Wednesday. Tribune Photo: S Chandan

Fire incident reported from Sec 24
Chandigarh, August 6
A fire was reported on the third floor of SCO No. 302 in Sector 24 here today.

Cops shut door of police station: Rape victim
Panchkula, August 6
Police personnel at the Chandimandir police station closed the doors of the station when the rape victim went for a surprise check late last night to see whether the accused (conman Devinder Gill) was given VIP treatment, alleged the victim.

Not part of Kala Kachha gang, say arrested robbers
Mohali, August 6
“Don’t call us members of the ‘Kala Kachha gang’. We don’t belong to that gang,” said the arrested accused involved in the recent dacoity cases at farmhouses in the Khuda Lahora and Mullanpur areas while being interrogated by the Mohali Police.

Arrest accused, say residents
Panchkula, August 6
As many as 60 persons gheraoed the police post of Sector 16 here demanding immediate arrests of accused in a brawl case this evening. The situation was brought under control after the ACP and SHO reached the spot.

Haryana Guv launches nature cure website
Chandigarh, August 6
Former Union Minister and senior BJP leader Harmohan Dhawan, along with Dr Sheenu Aggarwal, met Haryana Governor Kaptan Singh Solanki today.

Teej function at Sector 38 (West)
Cong councillors plan to meet MC Commissioner
Chandigarh, August 6
The controversy over the Teej function organised reportedly by BJP councillors in Sector 38 (West) on July 31 without paying ground rent for holding the function and stealing power through a kundi connection is not going to die down soon as Congress councillors have decided to take up the issue with the MC Commissioner seeking action against BJP Councillors.

Fortis conducts paired kidney transplant
Mohali, August 6
Fortis Hospital here has conducted a paired kidney transplant, claimed to be the first in the region. It has brought hope to patients with blood group incompatible kidney donors.


Susheel Kumar and Bhupinder Bhalodi with their donors Soma Devi and Sudha Bhalodi at the hospital. Tribune photo: Vicky Gharu

BUSINESS NEWS
eBay India to host shopping fiesta
eBay India (www.ebay.in), eCommerce marketplace, is hosting a shopping fiesta, ‘Aazadi Rocks’, from August 5–15. With deals galore, ‘Aazadi Rocks’ brings together merchandise across range of product categories, including mobile phones, tablets, digital cameras, laptops, television sets, watches, amongst others at up to 79 per cent off.

EDUCATION

School authorities fume over PFA raid
Chandigarh, August 6
The authorities at Vivek High School, Mohali, are fuming over the raid conducted by the representatives of the People for Animals (PFA), on its premises on Tuesday.

Govt teachers hold protest
Mohali, August 6
Hundreds of members of the Government Teachers Union (Punjab) staged a protest in front of the offices of the Director-General School Education (DGSE) and DPI (Secondary) at Phase VIII today.


Members of the Government Teachers Union (Punjab) hold a protest at Phase VIII in Mohali on Wednesday. Tribune photo: Vicky Gharu

winter uniform
Education Dept asks govt schools to invite tenders within a week
Chandigarh, August 6
Learning from last year’s bitter experience when the UT Education Department had failed to provide winter uniforms to schoolchildren on time, the department has decided to initiate the tendering process in the coming week to ensure that uniforms are distributed by the time winter sets in.


The Education Department has decided to start the tendering process to ensure that uniforms are distributed by the time winter sets in. A file photograph

from schools
Vanamahotsava Week
Chandigarh: Vanamahotsava Week was celebrated at the GMSSS, Maloya, by the school eco-club. Various activities, including paper reading contest, painting competition, slogan-writing competition followed by plantation of medicinal saplings were conducted. School principal Gurmukh Singh sensitised the students to grow more trees.

Visually impaired students to get writers
Chandigarh, August 6
Panjab University (PU), will provide a writer to the visually impaired or disabled students for their examination. The University Controller of Examination will issue a circular to all institutions and PU-affiliated colleges.

War for ‘credit’ begins among student parties
Chandigarh, August 6
A tussle is going on nowadays among student parties of Panjab University to take the credit for compelling the authorities to resolve issues on matters raised by them. The NSUI today claimed that following their efforts, the PU authorities had agreed for 90 per cent credits for all 11 science departments.

NSUI activists outside the Vice-Chancellor’s office at Panjab University on Wednesday. Tribune photo: Parvesh Chauhan

SOI protests unhygienic conditions in Arts Block
Chandigarh, August 6
The Students Organisation of India (SOI), today protested against the unhygienic conditions at the Arts Block in Panjab University. A memorandum was submitted to Vice-Chancellor Arun Kumar Grover in which the party sought that the backyard of the Arts Block be cleaned, water coolers be installed in the canteen and infrastructure be upgraded.

SOI activists clean the premises at Panjab University on Wednesday. Tribune photo: Parvesh Chauhan

Students apprised on nation building
Chandigarh, August 6
On the third day of the orientation programme at the PEC University of Technology, a lecture was delivered by Dr MP Poonia, Director, National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research, Chandigarh.

pu & college notes
Homage paid to Hiroshima martyrs
The Department of Gandhian and Peace Studies, Panjab University (PU), today observed World Hiroshima Day at the department. A two-minute silence was observed to pay homage to the martyrs of World War I & II and other wars along with victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

NEIGHBOURHOOD

Vehicular traffic restored on Panchkula-Morni road
Morni, August 6
In less than 20 hours of caving in a stretch of the Panchkula-Morni road due to a landslide in Thana village, the Haryana Public Works Department (PWD) has constructed a ‘kutcha’ link road and restored the vehicular traffic.


Vehicles commute through a kutcha stretch on the Panchkula-Morni road on Wednesday. A Tribune photograph

LIC agent ends his life
Dera Bassi, August 6
A LIC agent committed suicide by hanging himself from a ceiling fan at a flat at Gulmohar City here last night. Cases of fraud were already registered against him.

COURTS

Beant Singh case
Plea for premature release of convicts courts controversy
Chandigarh, August 6
An affidavit today submitted by the Chandigarh Administration before the Punjab and Haryana High Court on rejecting a representation for premature release of two convicts in Beant Singh assassination case has raised a debate on the issue of jurisdiction and powers.

Murder outside school
Juvenile acquitted
Chandigarh, August 6
A juvenile court today acquitted the fourth accused boy in the Sector-19 murder case of 2011 in which three accused have earlier been sentenced to life imprisonment. The court acquitted the juvenile after the prosecution failed to prove the charges.

2 convicted in murder case
Chandigarh, August 6
The court today convicted two persons for the murder of a security guard in Sector 52 in 2012.

Flipkart, others fined for selling defective cellphone
Chandigarh, August 6
The District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum, Chandigarh, fined an online megastore, a manufacturer and a service centre for selling a defective cellphone and failing to repair it properly.

UK Homes told to pay Rs 50,000 compensation
Chandigarh, August 6
The District Disputes Redressal Forum has directed UK Homes to pay Rs 50,000 as compensation for failing to refund the booking amount.

CRIME

Woman arrested for thrashing maid
Chandigarh, August 6
The UT police today arrested a Sector-37 woman resident for thrashing her 13-year-old domestic help.

60-yr-old woman hit by car, dies
Chandigarh, August 6 A 60-year-old woman lost her life after she was hit by a rashly driven car at the red light junction of Kala Gram. The accused driver dropped the injured women to a hospital and escaped from there, said the police.

Student booked for thrashing media lensman
Chandigarh, August 6
A student of SD College, Sector 32, Chandigarh, was booked by the police after he along with others allegedly thrashed and tried to snatch the camera of a photo journalist of a Hindi daily at a discotheque in Sector 9 here this evening.

corruption case
ASI gets three-year jail term
Mohali, August 6
A court today pronounced three-year term to Punjab Police assistant sub-inspector (ASI) Kanwar Jaswinder Pal Singh in a corruption case.

SPORTS

Manav Mangal, Mohali, win TT meet
Mohali, August 6
Manav Mangal Smart School, Mohali, defeated Manav Mangal School, Sector 21, Chandigarh, to win the title in boys’ (U-14) category at the Independent School Association’s Table Tennis Tournament here today.

Paddlers of Manav Mangal Smart School, Mohali, and Gurukul Global School, Mani Majra in a jubilant mood after winning the girls' and boys' team event, respectively, in Mohali on Wednesday. Tribune photos: Vicky Gharu

GSSS-Dhanas outclass DAV-8 in kabaddi
Chandigarh, August 6
Riding high on a fine display of skills by both their catchers and raiders, Government Senior Secondary School, Dhanas, defeated DAV Senior Secondary School, Sector 8, to claim the under-19 title at the Inter-School Circle Kabaddi Championship for Boys held on the Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 23, grounds here today.

Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 40, and Government Model Senior Secondary School, Maloya, fight it out for the third spot at the Inter-School Circle Kabaddi Championship for Boys in Chandigarh on Wednesday. Tribune photos: Parvesh Chauhan

Medical aid comes handy
Chandigarh, August 6
The Education Department, in a special circular, has directed all venue heads to provide basic medical aid during sports tournaments.

Fencers bring glory to GMSSS-10
Chandigarh, August 6
Government Model Senior Secondary School (GMSSS), Sector 10, fencers won all the three events—foil, epee and sabre—to romp home victorious in the Inter-School Fencing Championship for Boys (U-19).

Strawberry Fields cagers move ahead
Chandigarh, August 6
On the opening day of the Inter-School Basketball Tournament for Girls (U-14), Fields School, Sector 26, beat Aashiana School, Sector 46, 26-12. In another match, Guru Nanak Public school, Sector 36, defeated AKSIPS, Sector 45, 24-06.

Netball: Dynamite Club clinch title
Chandigarh, August 6
Dynamite Club squeezed past Panjab University Campus Club to claim the senior title on the concluding day of St Soldier Netball Trophy organised by the Chandigarh East District Netball Association.

GNPS-36 log 3-run win in cricket final
Chandigarh, August 6
Guru Nanak Public School, Sector 36, registered a three-run win over Saupin’s School, Sector 32, to win the Inter-School Cricket Championship for Boys (U-14) at Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 26, here today.

UT open tennis tournament
Ritwik, Himanshu enter semifinals
Chandigarh, August 6
Ritwik and Himanshu came together to beat the pair of Nishant and Saksham in a quarterfinal clash at the ongoing UT Open Tennis Tournament for Boys and Girls being organised by the UT Sports Department. Playing at the Lake Sports Complex, the winning pair defeated their rivals 4-2, 4-0 in the boys’ doubles encounter.

Kabir gets ready to hit a forehand during a boys' singles tie at the Lake Sports Complex on Wednesday. Tribune Photo: S Chandan